Project Outreach, Reply to Nominate your Project

[Technomage Hawke]

Steve,
I had that very same problem with thunderbird. its not entirely accessible under linux. its completely inaccessible under OS X, so I use mail.app instead. 

on an off-topic note: I have an evaluation with an eye surgeon tomorrow. I am hoping they can resolve the excessive eye pain that came up on me shortly after I went totally blind last year. Unfortunately, the pain has been bad enough that I haven't really done anything about writing up the presentation for the march west side meeting (yet). I was thinking of a brief introduction to accessibility for the blind in Linux and show off VINUX on a PPC G3 powerbook. I still have a few things to complete on the unit before presentation, but they should be done and ready to go. 

I seem to have forgotten what day the west side meeting takes place on and I definitely need to arrange transport. 

-Eric

On Feb 28, 2011, at 11:43 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:

> I don't know if you wanted private replies or have them posted to the list but Thunderbird didn't make it easy for me to reply privately so here's one nomination so far.
> 
> I would like to nominate elinks, a really fine text based web browser. Unfortunately, the javascript support is very poor at this time and would probably require a major facelift to that support to include DOM support.  I only mention it because a surprisingly large number of people still use it and seem to sware by it but I personally find the javascript support so poor that I go and use Firefox instead.  But it might be an interesting project to get involved with.
> 
> On 02/27/2011 06:18 PM, Paul Hahn wrote:
>> This was originally posted to the dev list, but I am copying it here
>> to get some more participation.  Thanks, PSH.
>> 
>> 
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> 
>> Earlier this year Ed and I got together and planned out the next 6
>> months of PLUG-Dev meetings. We have posted the results to this forum
>> and are working to keep the PLUG web site up-to-date, so that everyone
>> knows what is going on. It is our hope that by doing this, interest in
>> PLUG Development activities will increase.
>> 
>> For your reference, future meetings are as follows:
>> 
>> * March: MV-Proc and Project Outreach
>> * April: DBUS Presentation
>> * May: Debian Package Management Presentation
>> * June: Discussion on source code control systems
>> * July:  Project Outreach Pizza Party (hackfest or presentation on
>> work accomplished)
>> 
>> One of the ideas that I hope will increase interest has been dubbed
>> "Project Outreach". Project Outreach is a way for PLUG-dev to give
>> back to the larger Linux community. This project involves PLUG
>> adopting a free software project and contributing our time to making
>> it better.
>> 
>> The first item of business for Project Outreach is to nominate
>> projects. The nominated projects will be evaluated at the March
>> PLUG-dev meeting by meeting participants and a winner (or maybe two)
>> will be selected by secret ballot (this means you should show up to
>> the March meeting if you want to vote for your favorite project).
>> 
>> So, at this time we are looking for project nominations. The project's
>> nominated should meet the following criteria:
>> 
>> * The project should be a project that appeals to a broad base of PLUG members.
>> 
>> * The project should be in a state where improvement, or addition, is need.
>> 
>> * The project should need contributions from people of varying skill
>> levels (A complicated kernel driver for your proprietary hardware
>> would not be a good option for a project).
>> 
>> * We are looking for projects in programming languages typically used
>> by GNU Linux developers. This means C, C++, PHP, Python, Perl, etc.
>> 
>> * The project must be free software, it should meet Debian inclusion guidelines.
>> 
>> 
>> Project Outreach means that future meetings will involve more than
>> just listening to presentations (although we will still have them, as
>> per the schedule). It means PLUG-dev members will be rolling up our
>> sleeves during hackfest's. We need more than just coders at these
>> hackfests, however. Free and open source projects need translation,
>> documentation, design work, beta testing, packaging, and bug fixing.
>> These are talents that many PLUG members, whether experienced
>> developers, beginning developers, or brand new users, can contribute
>> to.
>> 
>> As mentioned previously, we hope to vote on which projects we wish to
>> adopt for Project Outreach during the second portion of the March
>> PLUG-Dev meeting (in one week's time). Before we can do that, we need
>> your nominations. So, think about what projects would benefit from our
>> future work. Then reply to this post with your nominations. You may
>> nominate as many projects as you wish. If you wish to vote for a
>> nomination, you must show up at the March meeting.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks for your support,
>> 
>> 
>> Paul Hahn
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